I wasn’t going to watch the interview because I have an early public appearance tomorrow but I decided to see just a snippet and now I’m heaving with laughter, tears streaming down my face and my throat raw.
It’s pure comedic gold, people. It’s not OK to laugh at cognitively challenged individuals but I think you get a pass if such an individual is trying to get elected president.
I’m going to be all swollen and hoarse at my talk tomorrow but I don’t even care. Please watch if you get a chance. Watch with a loved one because nothing brings people closer than a shared laugh. I’ll give no spoilers because I don’t want to rob you of enjoyment.
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That this creature rose up the ranks (even if it was by sucking 60 year old dick when she was 29) to be a presidential candidate is an indictment of our educational and government institutions.
She has entered the doom loop.
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That interview was almost obscene. I once had a student apply for the Spanish tutor position with zero knowledge of Spanish. She had the exact same expression as Kamala as she tried to fake her way through the interview and convince me she spoke Spanish.
I’m thinking they should have just stuck with Biden.
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I’ve started watching the second time because it’s just so bloody funny. I’ve truly never seen anything like this.
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This is Biden’s revenge for the palace coup. Remember the plan was NOT to replace him with Kamala because they knew how terrible she was. Obama/Pelosi wanted an open convention (remember, Obama waited for a long time before endorsing her). But they humiliated him so badly that he responded by endorsing her, thus preempting any dem establishment move to make it an open contest. Sure, he’s feeble, but you don’t treat the POTUS of your own party this way.
Also, remember that Biden and Obama always had problems. He and his family are reportedly still smarting from the fact that Obama endorsed Clinton when it was clearly Biden’s turn. How often does it happen that the VP of two consecutive terms doesn’t even get a shot at the presidency?
Biden’s having the last laugh.
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LOL, and here I was thinking that there would be grief for suggesting that her talents were largely horizontal ;-D
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“You and I both know what I’m talking about…”
(sighs, rubs forehead)
I’ve got a choice between watching the rest of that and reading a good book… and I’m gonna read the book.
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“watch the interview”
I might get around to it, but first I suspect the real hilarity will be lib-dem media trying to spin it as anything but a disaster… that will be pure comedy platinum.
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Partisanship is a brain disease.
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The problem isn’t that she got emotional. It’s that she couldn’t answer a single question. Baier had to repeat four times “This happened BEFORE the Congress bill, BEFORE”, and she still kept prattling about the Congress bill. She couldn’t defend a single one of her beliefs, weirdly ascribing them to Trump. She positioned herself as somebody applying for a secretary job with her oft-repeated “I’ll follow the law.” Anybody who aspires to leadership yet is so enamored of the word “follow” should not be elected as a leader.
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Her becoming the first woman president would really be an insult to women everywhere. God knows I despise Hillary Clinton but she was a woman of substance who could talk extemporaneously about issues.
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That’s exactly what I was thinking. These were very predictable questions. Immigration, economy, trans issues, Iran which she recently brought up herself. People feared before the interview that Baier would tell her the questions in advance but what was there to tell? A blind monkey could have predicted these questions. And still she had nothing? On any subject? It’s pathetic beyond words.
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She couldn’t stand up to Baier but she will stand up to Putin and the ayatollahs. Totally.
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You’re partisan so your impression is predictable. But an impartial viewer can tell that it was a great interview by how mad the right is at how she performed.
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It’s childish to suggest that I, of all people, am partisan. When Trump bombed during the debate, I said it. When Walz came off as more genuine than Vance in the debate, I also said it.
So please, no projections. You can’t refute what I’m saying on substance, so you resort to name-calling that is not grounded in reality.
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Are you retarded? Or a democrat? But then I repeat myself.
The only reaction to the interview on the right has been pure delight. I hope she goes on Fox every day.
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Guess what the headline from Drudge Report was — and that’s a conservative site — “Cat eats Fox”.
Maybe you’re the one projecting. She did great, not just in her handling of Beier and calling out Fox hypocrisy, but also in going into the lion’s den while Trump is hiding away.
Those who will vote for her, including former Republican voters like me who live in a battleground state, are happy with her performance. Keep projecting.
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Drudge has been a never-trumper for years now. Try again!
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Does that make him less conservative? I bet you’ll say Dick Cheney isn’t conservative either. Come on!
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“Drudge… conservative”
Drudge was bought out by corporate years ago. No conservative I know still uses it. Citing it as a conservative source is… odd.
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This is BS. Because Trump virus has eaten up the brains of erstwhile conservative pundits doesn’t make the one who didn’t bow to him a liberal. Principles are important things.
Conservatives, like me, still exist in the country. We still believe in the constitution, even if Trumpists don’t.
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If Trump had an identical performance at Rachel Maddow, would you say he did great? If the answer is no, you are being partisan.
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Considering the platform, she did a great job. In my opinion, actually, she does better in hostile environments than in cushy ones. At least the GOP has stopped arguing that she doesn’t do interviews. It’s Trump that is hiding away now.
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Are you the poster Anonymous, btw? Your way of trolling sounds exactly like him.
“Former republican voter in a battleground state” LOL
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If illustrating the flaw in your delusion makes me a troll, then I’ll take it.
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Yup, it’s Anonymous. The retard is back lol
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What a strange projection.
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“me who live in a battleground state, are happy with her performance”
So can you name two specific policies she outlined in the interview?
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PS: The interviewer wasn’t trying to elicit specific policies as he was trying to embarass her with Biden’s policies. She, in my opinion, successfully absolved herself. Also broke through the Fox misinformation machine by letting them know that the candidate has been calling Americans “enemies within” and threatening to use the military against citizens. For the little time she had, I thought she did a great job.
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That “Border bill” is amnesty. It’s open borders legislation which is why it was absolutely the right decision to block this bill. The support for mass amnesty of illegals plus an additional 1,8 million illegals a year is extremely low among voters. Blocking this bill was, thus, doing the will of the voters. Which is always right.
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That’s your opinion. I
The bill was brought to the floor by the most conservative member of the Senate, so it’s hardly a liberal bill. Yes, fair-minded observers KNOW that a permanent solution will have to include a mixture of amnesty and new restrictions/policies.
Those of you who run away because you can’t imagine giving a quarter but still want to get everything you want are the reason the issue has remained unsolved. But in Trump’s thinking, it’s better to run on a problem than fix it.
It wasn’t like he did much about it during his administration — like you yourself has mentioned a few times here.
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“trying to embarass her with Biden’s policies”
So the policies of Biden, whose VP she’s been for 3.5 years are an embarassment….
It’s weird to see a sitting VP run against the administration she’s been part of…
Is this the interview where she said minorities are too stupid to know how to get photocopies?
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I see you changing the goal post. You asked me for two policies she mentioned and I told you, so you can see why most people thought she did well.
Because she didn’t say the things YOU wanted her to say doesn’t make the interview a disaster. We’re the ones voting for her. Not you.
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No, the gem about the photocopies is from a different interview, believe it or not. She was gushing this sort of wisdom all day yesterday.
The suggestion that Biden’s policies are somehow the opposite of Harris’s policies is strange. She was asked repeatedly during the interview at which point in time she realized Biden’s policies were wrong. She failed to answer. If there was a time when she decided to abjure everything she believed before, as she seems to suggest, we need to hear when that happened, why, and what she did about it.
It’s like if Trump came out in support of open borders and got upset when people asked him when he changed his mind and why. If a politician suddenly begins to espouse the exact opposite of what they previously did in a dogged fashion for years, it’s not unreasonable to ask why. What is unreasonable is to refuse answering.
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Yeah, she didn’t do as badly as so many here are saying.
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Thank you Old Reader aka Anonymous or whoever you are for providing cause for a whole minute’s worth of hilarious mirth and uninhibited guffawing on an otherwise bleak late afternoon in Central Europe.
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Meh, from the short clips I’ve seen she didn’t do bad. Just bland as expected.
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Exactly.
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Exactly.
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Well done, Old Reader! Sterling and astute analysis.
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I would really like to see people answer my question. If Trump performed exactly like this on Rachel Maddow, would you still consider it an excellent performance?
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Trump performs terribly on ALL platforms. Because he’s a rambler. And when he’s specific, the things he promises are often always beating down others, and promising more chaos and unconstitutional things. Nothing in Kamala’s interview promised chaos. You may not like her stand on issues, but that’s to be expected. No politician embodies ALL of our goals. Not Reagan, not Bush 1 or 2. Not Clinton, and not Obama or Biden. We choose what we can live with. And the reason why Kamala is resonating is that we know who Trump is, and it was a disaster the last time. It’s simple, really.
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So, the reason why you’re voting for Harris is that she’s not Trump. That’s fair: it does not matter that Harris is a moron, politically incompetent, with a lacklustre personality. She’s not Trump and that’s enough of a good reason for voting for her. I get it.
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Nope. I’m voting for her because
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She does not have one idea that you can call her own but I’m sure that will be no deterrent to your voting for her.
Still, after reading your point i. above (the things I care about, including the rights of women to choose, Israel, the middle class, etc.), it appears that your claim to be a conservative is demonstrably false or at least inconsistent and unwarranted.
I am sorry I wasted your time and mine in pointless engagement.
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What makes you think she will have better policies than Biden?
How can you say she respects the Constitution if she’s in favor of packing the Supreme Court and curtailing the First Amendment?
And I beg you, please, don’t use these “prosecutor felon” cliches. It’s beneath you to ape slogans. I’m sure you can speak in your own voice.
People, clichés are not your friend. All these “walking us into WW3” and Co, don’t you hear how sad it sounds on the 10th repetition? I’m saying this in an utterly apolitical, fully aesthetics-related way.
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As for voting for Harris because of abortion, what is the plan? Pushing abortion rights through Congress? That looks doomed. Packing the Supreme Court? What is the actual policy you like?
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Here’s the problem: we don’t know Kamala’s stand on issues. Baier tried to get her to reveal it but she refused. Trump, with all the rambling, explained very clearly that he wants less immigration. What does Kamala want? More or less of it?
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This is a none issue for people like me who wouldn’t vote for Trump no matter how well he did in an interview.
Trump is a near octogenarian with clear signs of mental decline. That alone should be enough not to vote for him.
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This is not an issue. It’s a test for people who have the courage to ask themselves if they are thinking is clouded by partisanship. Mine isn’t, which is why I have no problem noticing when either candidate performs poorly. No politician deserves such a deep emotional attachment that we refuse to notice objective reality.
Which is why I ask, would this still be an excellent interview if Trump was answering the questions in the exact same way?
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It’s really bizarre that I have to keep reminding old readers that I don’t see what their “exactlys” refer to. If you want to be understood, quote what you are responding to. Otherwise, I see a row of “exactlys” in my feed with zero understanding what is being exactlied.
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“I see you changing the goal post”.”
Don’t know enough about the tax credit beyond wondering did she have any reason for not pursuing it during the previous adminsitration?
As for the border, she was named effin’ border czar, and she’s blaming Trump for the border problem? After 3.5 years of Biden?
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Do you want a little lesson in civics and the job of the VP? Perhaps, like Trump, you assume that the VP can make policies (and change election results)?
Most educated people know that the VP is mostly a figurehead, waiting for the unwelcome possibility that the president might die in office. As soon as you know that — which most of us knew by fifth grade — you will rethink the two sentences you wrote above.
No one credits Pence for Trump Tax Cuts or blames him for January 6, because we have a brain and know how the chain of command works.
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That’s why Baier kept asking her whether she didagreed with the early policy of the administration to remove border controls. She could have easily said, “yes, I thought about it and I now realize that these were not the optimal actions.” Instead, she kept going back to the border bill that happened years later.
As for Pence, if he were the nominee do you honestly think that he wouldn’t get questioned on his administration’s policies? Really? He already had to respond a trillion times about how he feels about Trump’s actions and he always managed to make it clear what his positions were.
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I’m still curious. Does Harris disagree with the removal of border controls that happened throughout 2021? What is her position on immigration? Do we need more? Less? The same number? That Border bill she kept referencing calls for an enormous increase. Is that what she proposes? A huge increase? We know what Trump proposes. What’s her plan? More immigration? Or less?
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Again, if we’re being fair, we’ll agree that it’s super hard for a VP to disagree too much publicly with her principal, even for the purpose of winning an election. There’s no one I know who thinks she agreed with everything Biden did. But not throwing him under the bus for her career is a plus in my book.
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Right, great, but since she’s now running, it would be great to hear what she believes immigration rates should be. More or less? What specific number? Why is Trump managing to say this and she isn’t? Aren’t you at all curious what she actually thinks?
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I know what she thinks. She wants a combination of amnesty and new border regulations to make the border safe. Trump wants to deport. This is an easy choice.
Remember, like you keep saying, unless she has a super majority in both houses, nothing she tells me will change anything. This is why this is not a major issue for me. I’m fine knowing what her values her, and I prefer it to the felon guy’s.
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Can you give me a recent link where Harris said she supports amnesty? This would be a major statement and I want to see it for myself. If you don’t have proof that she said it, your mind-reading activities are neither here nor there.
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YOU, a few comments ago, said the bill she supported was amnesty. I don’t agree with your 💯 but I there’s some amnesty in the bill, along with a lot of funding for border enforcement and other things that border agents asked for. So when you ask me what she wants to do, I just have to point to that. See? Not confusing.
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You are planning to vote for a candidate whose intentions you can only decipher by reading my blog. Wouldn’t it be easier if she explained it herself without needing my help. I do have a job, you know.
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But wait, there’s more. Harris also blamed Trump for…. trans surgeries for convicts and illegals. For reals.
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That was one of the weirdest parts of the interview.
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Yes, it was a policy under his administration, too. There goes that talking point.
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But is she in favor? Or against? Trump clearly said he’s against. What’s her position? It should be a simple question.
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She says she’ll follow the law. If the law is repealed, she’ll obey that. If it’s not repealed, she’d follow it. How am I able to understand this and you (a PhD holder) can’t?
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But does she support this law? I personally don’t. See? I said it easily. I don’t support it. Does she? And why is it so hard to say?
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So don’t vote for her if this is your #1 issue. For most people in the country, it’s not a biggie, so we don’t need her to give any more answers than she already gave. You see?
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Clarissa
“It should be a simple question.”
Yes, but there is no chance that any politician can openly support an open border or general amnesty, that would destroy the livelihood of millions of working class Americans. Instead, they desperately avoid the legal term illegal aliens and hide behind sickening fake niceties like “dreamers” or “newcomers” hoping to arouse public sympathy. The ugly truth is that there is absolutely no compassion in putting your fellow citizens out of work.
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Of course. And this silence of Kamala on every single issue is evidence that her policies are not wanted by anybody in the country. She can’t speak the truth because she knows she’ll lose immediately if she did.
That’s the crux of the issue. Nobody wants these far-left policies so they have to be snuck in covertly. I just hate this superciliousness where they think they are better than us and know better what we need. Bastards.
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Again, not true. Obama did not support gay marriage when he was running, even though everyone knee even then that he supported it. This is politics. Because Trump is open about his fascist views doesn’t make him a better candidate that is coy a out her humane ones. Again, you don’t have to vote for her. But we who are know why we are doing it.
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Again, not true. Obama did not support gay marriage when he was running, even though everyone knew even then that he supported it. This is politics. Because Trump is open about his fascist views doesn’t make him a better candidate than one that is coy about her humane ones. Again, you don’t have to vote for her. But we who are know why we are doing it.
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Why does anybody need to be coy about humane views? Serious question.
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Let’s ask why we have a large number of people in the country (and on this blog) who would vote against someone just because they advocate for a solution that doesn’t seek to divide the country or separate families.
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I wasn’t requesting that you ask anything. I posed a simple question and politely requested a response. Why can’t you do it? If Harris’s position is humane, why does she need to conceal it?
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“If Harris’s position is humane, why does she need to conceal it?”
She’s not trying to conceal it. I said she was coy — because she’s a politician. Same way Obama was coy about Gay marriage, even though he eventually supported it. Being a politician is knowing what you can say clearly and what you only hint, until you get the power to do it. Why are you pretending that all politics isn’t like this?
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Why isn’t it like this for a politician named Trump? You say his ideas are fascist while Harris’s are humane. Why can he speak of his beliefs openly while she has to be “coy” about hers? If they are truly humane and his are truly fascist, shouldn’t it be the other way round?
Or maybe you are mistaken on what’s fascist and what’s humane, which seems increasingly likely as you struggle with the answer.
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I’m starting to think I should write-in Old Reader as my vote for President. A paragon of logic, common sense and civility weathering a flurry of vicious, bullying attacks. He might be my new hero.
Before the inevitable protest about the terms “vicious” and “bullying,” we have two regulars who use terms such as “twat” and “retard.” I should not have to explain further.
Perhaps just as importantly, I see the answer to a question for which I’ve searched quite a while: what is it about Harris that makes people look at an actual, proven fraud, sexual assaulter*, and felon whose every speech illustrates dishonesty (and probably dementia) and then say, “She’ll be worse”? I had narrowed it down to a few ideas:
But no. Those aren’t the reasons to vote for Trump. The reason–the reason put forth by undoubtedly the smartest human being on the planet, a giant intellect whose every orifice is positively leaking Intellectual Acumen–the reason why I and the other 47 or 48 million odd misguided sots need to turn to the Right immediately…
Kamala Harris’ personality is…. LACKLUSTER.
Well, that’s it, gang. Fuck her and the horse she rode in on. Sexual assault, okay. Lying, fine. Legal fraud, no biggie. Convicted felon, shmonvicted shmelon. But a LACKLUSTER PERSONALITY… that is not America. Mrs. Col. Potter didn’t raise any of her kids to vote for someone whose personality is LACKLUSTER. Not going to happen.
Thanks for showing me how misguided I was. I will of course vote for Trump and the sentient chatbot.
*Worth remembering: the reason Trump was not found liable for rape is that forced finger-fucking is not considered rape in New York State. Juries found him responsible for such, and responsible for demeaning his victim by claiming she was crazy for the accusation.
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I don’t know who specifically you are arguing with but I can explain why I don’t even consider voting for Harris.
The reason is that she is far-left. Every belief she ever voiced until a couple of months ago is far-left. I don’t share its ideology, I don’t like its goals, and I’m fearful of its methods. My vision of what is good is fundamentally different from that of the far left. This has nothing to do with personalities for me but with my entire system of beliefs. You can disagree with my beliefs but you can’t sincerely claim that I’m not entitled to them.
As for bullying, I fail to understand how calling a person who can leave at any time a retard is bullying while calling a person who can’t leave (because this is my blog) paranoid isn’t.
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I have to say, as well, that I never engaged with you with anything but politeness and respect. In response to which, you come here and call me names simply because I don’t support your political candidate. That’s disappointing.
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This one is easy. Because the things Trump *isn’t* saying are worse than those he’s said, and because I was alive when he was in office and saw the kind of chaos his administration bought, from his blackmail of Zelensky to his coddling with Putin to his mismanagement of Covid to his refusal to concede an election he lost, to his use of a mob to try to scuttle a long-standing tradition of a peaceful transition of power, because of those things, I don’t give him the benefit of the doubt. There’s more, of course, but those are worse enough.
Listen to this interview when he’s talking about the January 6 mob: https://x.com/Everytown/status/1846934875171086623. When referring to the rioters, he says “we” (“we didn’t have guns”), and when speaking about the cops and other law enforcement, he says “the others” — while he was the president and commander-in-chief. On whose side do you expect your president to be? I don’t know what else to tell you if you think this person deserves one more inch of power.
Kamala can have zero personality, be coy about her positions, and be blacker than coal. She’s way above the other guy in character, competence, and cool. Again, I’m not asking you to do what I hope to do: vote for her. But stop asking why I’m doing it. I’ve given you enough reason. If Trump is your ideal candidate, then vote for him. Elections are about numbers, and most of us are counting on the off-chance that Americans, after flirting with disaster for a while, eventually make the right call in the end.
PS: Thank you Col. Potter for your message. I’m always happy to get through the noise that seems to pervade this comment section, and to know that I’m not losing my mind — even if the world seems to be doing so.
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Still no answer, though. Why does Kamala need to be coy about beliefs that you say are humane? Wouldn’t it immediately endear her to the voters and win her the election on the spot if she revealed these humane beliefs?
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Okay, we’re going in circles, so I’ll stop. I’ll vote for Harris. You vote for Stein, or whoever your third party saviour is.
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Please ask yourself why you are struggling to answer such a simple question. I think it will be very helpful to you.
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Just wondering, is coy something like treacherous ;-D
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Im surprised at the use of the word by Harris supporters. It’s a put-down when used to describe a woman. I want to go on record that I wasn’t the one using the word to describe her.
To me, she is trying to conceal her true beliefs because she knows they have no popular appeal. It’s as simple as that. Most Americans don’t want what she truly set to achieve. She knows that she is trying to pretend she’s much more moderate than what she is.
With Trump, at least, you know exactly what you are getting. Dude’s authentic in spades.
How do you feel about Pollievre? My sister in Canada is very enthusiastic about him.
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Poilievre is the Canuck Trump and likely to be the next prime minister, quite possibly with a majority and wide support across the country. His political instincts are solid: he was the only political leder to talk to the trucker convoy and oppose the illegal Emergency Act; intends to both reduce immigration and regulations to spur house construction”; opposes men pretending to be female to abuse women and children; and “Tabarnak c’est pas possible”, he not only doubts the climate crisis but will remove the ridiculous carbon tax ;-D
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We are minutes away from finding out that it was Trump who married Doug Emhoff, it seems. Harris apparently came into existence last week and has no responsibility for anything. Except prosecuting a cartel that fell apart in 1982.
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I wake up and see this thread is still going on lol.
Old Reader/Anonymous has claimed to be a foreigner, a foreigner living in america (when pushed as to why he cares about american politics so much), and finally, a “republican voter in a battleground state” lol.
He’s a retarded troll and should be treated as such.
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Yes, this interview is a gift that keeps on giving. I spent half the day answering questions from people from other countries who say, “I’m sorry, I mean no offense but don’t you find it a little concerning that this might be your next president?”
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@Old Reader
I know what she thinks.
Well, that says it all, now.
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I’m not sure the word “thinks” applies.
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I find it difficult to listen to more than a few seconds of Harris…. I have the idea that duckspeak is her goal… but she’s not very good at it.
How empty a suit do you have to be that you can’t even manage duckspeak?
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“Perhaps just as importantly, I see the answer to a question for which I’ve searched quite a while: what is it about Harris that makes people look at an actual, proven fraud, sexual assaulter*, and felon whose every speech illustrates dishonesty (and probably dementia) and then say, “She’ll be worse”? I had narrowed it down to a few ideas:”
Hey Col. Potter, you put it way better than I could. Kamala is definitely bland, annoying, and has lots of faults, but they all certainly pale in comparison to those of Trump’s. Trump is a true postmodern abomination of a politician for whom values and facts don’t matter at all, vanity, lust, corruption, greed, etc. are all acceptable because “he’s in our team.” Truly nasty stuff.
Shame on Republicans for choosing this ahole again. At least Democrats had the guts to choose someone else.
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